#dire

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

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My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. ↗

— Neil Jordan

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It does make you a better director and a better actor. ↗

— Charles Keating

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Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. ↗

— Janet Suzman

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I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is rotated in and out. I am very use to dealing with people's methods. And perspectives. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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